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New York, NY

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Fiction & Literature

agent Contact

Malaga Baldi / Baldi Agency
212-222-3213

publicist Contact

Ruth Weiner / Seven Stories Press
212-226-8760

Kia Corthron

Kia Corthron is the author of THE CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER, to be released by Seven Stories Press in January 2016. It is her first novel. As a playwright, she has received numerous awards, including several for her body of work: the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, and the Lee Reynolds Award. In addition, she has written a bit of television. (Edgar and Writers Guild Outstanding Series awards for The Wire.)

Works

2016

THE CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER

On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, in a tiny Alabama town, two brothers come of age in a world of model trains, church, and the local chapter of the Klan: eighth-grade Randall, the son of a sawmill worker, a lonely outcast begins teaching his eighteen-year-old deaf and uneducated brother B.J. sign language. Simultaneously in small-town Maryland the two sons of a Pullman Porter, six-year-old hyper Eliot and his brother Dwight, who at twelve is discovering he likes boys more than girls, grow up in a world punctuated by the county fair, extended family picnics, a visit from A. Philip Randolph and the legacy of a lynched great-aunt. The four mature into men directly confronting the fierce resistance to the early civil rights movement, and are all ultimately uprooted, navigating a deaf urban world, the working class suburbs of the early calculator boom, a community fresh from the Panther heyday being accosted by the onset of AIDS. Their journey culminates in an explosive encounter between the two families.

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